Guido: I've abandoned the "don't use tables for layout" meme...(twitter.com)

19 pointsby iamelgringovor 17 Jahren5 comments

Guido: I've abandoned the "don't use tables for layout" meme...

http://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/3454080762

4 comments

css design is beautiful though. in general, if you put a table design next to a css design, the css design will be more aesthetically pleasing.

rufugeevor 17 Jahren

Here here. While I haven't abandoned it, I do really, really hate CSS for layout. You get it just right, and then realize it completely sucks in another browser. As bad as cross-browser javascript used to be before prototype and jquery.

xsmashervor 17 Jahren

Agreed. Why spend four hours creating a CSS layout that still won't match the height of the two columns when you can create a table in two minutes?

tomh-vor 17 Jahren

There is a neat trick called "faux columns" which has been around for ages to help in most cases for equal height columns.

tomh-vor 17 Jahren

Not sure what the news value of this is, GVR is a very good programmer, but not a frontend engineer. This is kinda like a famous CSS expert/designer like Mark Boulton or Veerle Pieters giving up on SQL because it's so much more pain than what the MS visual studio wizards can generate for you.